The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-11-10
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eader. DR.. Louis Contri, who was an
Legitimate son of Victor Emanuel,
King of Italy. The last words of the
remarkable man, as he lay in Cam
bridge jail last April. were: Tine
world shall never know me as was"
Nevertheless his secret has been
prObed and the career which
was exposed viii find none to-
match it. The Doctors disguise was
pierced several weeks before his death
by one or two persons who knew him
years before as DR.. Contri, but they
did not expose him. He was then
trial for bigamy and swim
ding Miss Lucy Torrey, of Cambridge,
out of SIC. 600, and If he had lived TO go
into court, the whole story would prob
ably have come out, for many persons
hearabouts knew the fenian leader in
timately previous to 1872. These per
sons have fully identified DR.. Grants
photograph since his death as that of
DIR. Contri.
According to his story, he was born
in Austria, but was the son OF Victor
Emanuel and Archduchess Adelhird.
of Austria. He was born in 1912, two
months before Victor Emanuel and the
ArchduchesS were united in marriage.
Victor Emanuel was at that time king
of Sardinia, and did not succeed to the
throne of Italy till 1851. But when but
a mere child he was transferred to-the
by whom he was carefully sehooled in
the sciences. Among other things he
and so proficient had he
become that ne could speak at
least five with f1uency. The old abbot
came, as it were, a parent to him, and
finally the young mans desire to
know something of his parentage be-
came 50 strong that the good old priest
told him all, even to the stain upon his
birth. When the young man grew up
he went to Sardinia and openly con-
spired against the king, and was forced
to fly. His alleged father supplied
him with money. He came to Ameri-
ca with DIR. McSheeby, and when the
war broke out he enlisted in New
York regiment.
His connection with the fenian raid
on Canada is well known. 1t was his
ventures in the marriage line that gave
him his wide reputation. When he
came to this country he left wife in
Germany, but soon after landing here
he took another. Little is known of
his army life, except the fact that he
was taken prisoner and sent to Rich
mond some months before the fall of
the southern capital. He there made
the acquaintance of Miss Virginia
Saunders, a niece of Jefferson Davis.
He was an Aaron Burr among women
and he easily won the heart of Miss
Saunders. Hardly had peac G
been declared before Contri married
her and few with her to Canada. They
had lived IN Montreal few months
only when his young bride died, leav-
ing him once more free man, for his
little German wife had obtained di-
vorce on account of his desertion.
He returned at once to the States
and arrived in Boston in the spring OF
1886, when fenianism was at its height.
He went into the struggle body and
roll himself in the rank and file
then preparing for a raid on Can.
ada. So energetic was he that when
the fenians left Boston he was colo
mel. In 1859 he married Mrs. james
Delaney, of Boston, who had $500, 0OC
in the bank. When that was gone he
deserted her. He next married Miss
Mary Dittson, of a Hudson river town
For this he was sentenced to Sing
Sing for two years, but secured his re
lease after three months. lie theT
uIODPCO VI SOhOLIs
In 1880 he appeared in London un
der the name of DR.. Grant, and adver
tised as a specialist, and lectured ex
involved in scandal, he secretly
left London and returned to thu
United States. He learned that hi
first wife had procured divorce from
him and had gone to live in Chicago
He went there, and it is believed tina
while in that city he obtained medica
degrees from local dispensary unde
the name of A. j. Perry, by which
name he became widely known. h
figured conspicuously in the lectur'
rooms of the west and south as mai
of learning and uncommon. eloquence
Newspaper notices of his lectures wer'
found in a scrap book in his trunk afte
his arrest in Clayton, N. j., in Marcl
last.
1t was while out upon a lecture tou
he first met and married the woman
who is known as Kate Ray, his sister
| Together they conspired to ''do up
| the large watering places of the coun
| try. In the summer of 1884 he ant
Ehis sister were at Old Orchard Beacl
under the name of DIR. Perry. H
claimed to be an extremely wealth.
| Englishman, with untold possession
| in Australia. The woman he passes
off as his sister he said also possesses
great wealth. Among the visitors T.
| the beach was Miss Emma kanes, o
st. Thomas, Canada, whom he marriet
in short order. He secured nearly $50,
600 from her and left. He proposed +
/ a number of other women and becam
engaged to Mrs. Williams,
rich widow, of Kennebunk, Maine
| The timely interference of friends save
her. AT REVERE Beach he laid siege t
the heart of Miss Riddle, of Man
chester, New Hampshire, proposed an
was rejected. He visited with his al
legged sister, Newport, Nantucket
| Long Branch, Bar HarbOr, Saratoga
Lake Winnipiseogee and resorts in tn
| White mountains. In 1885 he opene
a doctors Office in Boston. He wa
soon engaged to marry three ladies
and after robbing them of all they ha
he decamped.
In March, 1885, he paid court to Mrs
| Annie Bulger, a dress maker of Brook
Ign, and finally proposed to marry hel
| At the same time he was carrying on
similar arrangement with Mary Stu
gis, of New York city. He fed on tn
night he agreed to marry both, takin
all they possessed. even their clothes
BE next turned up at Iittleton, N. ii
where he married Miss Lucy Tore!
of Cambridge. This Melted him $50
600. After that affair Dr.. Grant wei
into hiding in Clayton, N. j., WheI
some time previously he purchased
comfortable little farm. After he ha
robbed the Cambridge lady DR.. Graz
and his so-called sister quarreled ovS
the spoils. The Doctor went to b
home and Kate went west. DetectiN
Ducey, of Cambridge, got on his tracl
and after some skillful work, arreste
him il Clayton, n. j., early in Marc
He was taken back to Cambridge an
committed to the house of correction
await his trial. On the 18th of ApI
he died.
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